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Overview

David Copp is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focused on Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences. Within these disciplines, Copp's research particularly addresses Philosophy, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Education, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics explored in Copp's scholarship include Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics; Free Will and Agency; War, Ethics, and Justification; Theology and Philosophy of Evil; Philosophical Ethics and Theory; Psychological and Educational Research Studies; and Education and Critical Thinking Development.

Copp has recently contributed to academic journals with papers such as:

  • Epistemic virtue in higher education: testing the mechanisms of intellectual character development, 2023, Current Psychology
  • The structure of adult thinking: A network approach to (meta)cognitive processing, 2024, Learning and Individual Differences
  • Offending by mentioning, 2023, Inquiry

Frequent collaborators in Copp's research include Gabe Avakian Orona, Richard Arum, Quoc-Viet Dang, Paul Bloomfield, and Duncan Pritchard. Their joint work has appeared repeatedly in venues such as Current Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences, and Inquiry.

Best Publications

  • The Oxford handbook of ethical theory

    David Copp

  • Morality, Normativity, and Society

    David Copp

  • Realist-Expressivism: A Neglected Option for Moral Realism

    David Copp

  • The Idea of a Legitimate State

    David Copp

  • DARWINIAN SKEPTICISM ABOUT MORAL REALISM

    David Copp

  • Defending the Principle of Alternate Possibilities: Blameworthiness and Moral Responsibility

    David Copp

  • Morality and Virtue: An Assessment of Some Recent Work in Virtue Ethics*

    David Copp;David Sobel

  • The Ring of Gyges: Overridingness and The Unity of Reason *

    David Copp

  • TOWARD A PLURALIST AND TELEOLOGICAL THEORY OF NORMATIVITY

    David Copp

  • The Collective Moral Autonomy Thesis

    David Copp

  • On the Agency of Certain Collective Entities: An Argument from “Normative Autonomy”

    David Copp

  • Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics

    David Copp

  • Against direction of fit accounts of belief and desire

    David Sobel;David Copp

  • Belief, Reason, and Motivation: Michael Smith's "The Moral Problem"

    David Copp

  • Hobbes on artificial persons and collective actions

    David Copp

  • Morality, Reason and Truth. David Copp , David Zimmerman

    David Copp;David Zimmerman

  • Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics

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  • What Collectives Are: Agency, Individualism and Legal Theory

    David Copp

  • The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: Justice, Autonomy, and the Basic Needs

    David Copp

  • Milk, Honey, and The Good Life on Moral Twin Earth

    David Copp

  • Quinn on double effect: the problem of closeness'

    John Martin Fischer;Mark Ravizza;David Copp

  • Morality, reason, and truth : new essays on the foundations of ethics

    David Copp;David Zimmerman

  • ‘Ought’ implies ‘can’ and the derivation of the Principle of Alternate Possibilities

    David Copp

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